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Pierce Brosnan voices his concerns over the direction
of the Bond series and his future as 007...
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Brosnan Speaks About 007's Future
22nd March 2004
During a press junket for his latest film "The Laws of
Attraction", movie website CHUD.com got
to talk to Pierce Brosnan and ask probing questions about Bond
21. Brosnan's candid
answers cut through the usual ambiguous sound-bytes that get
reported, to criticise the producers and the resistance to going
back to Flemingian roots for the next adventure.
Q: You've got one more dance with Bond
- is there anything left to do with the character?
Pierce: Well, the dance...we seem to have taken a break at the moment. The producers
have reached an impasse, as far as I can tell. They don't know what to do. They
don't know how to move on. A sense of paralysis has set in. So, for me it's business
as usual. I shall just carry on with creating work for myself. I certainly
would love to do a fifth Bond and then bow out, but if
this last one is to be the last
one, then so be it.
Q: We've discussed before Michael Wilson's timidity
to make a Bond movie in the vein of From Russia With Love
and I think that's a real problem...
Pierce: It's frustrating, really, because they feel they have to top themselves
in a genre which is just spectacle and huge bang for your buck. |
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Above: Pierce Brosnan at a seperate
after-show Q&A session that followed a special screening
of "The Thomas
Crown Affair" last week. |
For me, I think you can have your cake and eat it. You can have
real character work and real storylines and a thriller aspect and
all the kind of quips and asides and explosions and the women.
I love From Russia With Love. It's one of the finest pieces.
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Q: So with the next one, would you want to cut back
to a more For Your Eyes Only-type model? More simple,
less effects-driven?
Pierce: More of a character-driven piece, yes.
Certainly more of a character-driven
piece and what is going to happen next in the story because now we're just
saturated - it's wonderful the spectacle they create. It's
fantastic.
But I love the last
one and where it was going - until we got to Hong Kong and I was into the suit
and into the old straitjacket of playing him. |
Q: The stuff in the prison at the beginning was great.
Pierce: Yeah, that was like, 'Huh? This is a Bond movie??' But they broke out
of it too soon into the formulaic, safe side. They're too scared.
Q: If they changed it, you'd do more than one more?
Pierce: Oh, my contract is up. They can do it or not.
Q: You say there's a paralysis - are they talking
to someone else?
Pierce: They say they're not talking to someone else...
Q: But they might not tell you?
[Pierce smiles a knowing smile]
Pierce: What a game! 'I thought you were my
friend! I thought we were friends...' (mimes taking a knife out of his
back) This belongs to you, I think! |
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Q: So, if they changed it to more like From Russia With
Love, would you be more inclined to carry on?
Pierce: I'd be inclined to carry on if it were From Russia With Love or anything.
Just, the fifth was there. We started talking about the fifth and so this paralysis
that set in is rather surprising.
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Q: But they finally got back the rights of Casino Royale,
but [Wilson] said he wouldn't dare film any of the story,
so he just wants to scrap the novel and use the title.
Pierce: Well, that's ludicrous.
It's absolutely sheer lunacy because Casino Royale
is somewhat the blueprint for the Bond character anyway.
If you go to that book,
you find out more about James Bond than in any of the other books. |
But hey, they're a wonderful family that's done it their own
way for many years and they're at a point now where they've suffered
a great loss in the passing of their mother. They're an Italian
family, an American family and they're in the unique position
that no one else in this community called Hollywood stands it
- they have full control of this franchise. So, I don't know
what's going to happen. I have no
idea.
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